FCC Cites Dell For Failure To Label TV Sets
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Dell.com has joined the list of online TV sales Web sites cited by the FCC for failure to label analog-only TV sets.
As of May 25, sets without digital tuners must be clearly marked, either on the set or in close proximity, with the warning that the set will not receive over-the-air broadcasts after February 2009 unless equipped with a converter box.
This is good advice - and something I have been trying to get 'others' in my house to do!! I keep telling the kids that it is better to use 17-2 for Wordgirl recordings!!
I don't however, watch much of anything myself that is in SD and do wish that some of these available sub-channels were put to better use.
I also wish our Toronto stations would get on this bandwagon as well. My personal requests would be 5-2 - CBC Newsworld, 9-2 - TSN, and 57-2 - Rogers Sportsnet , but that is for another thread....
Yeah gives a new meaning to the term "Digital Divide"
The term digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all.
KVPT is no longer broadcasting an analog signal.
You can still receive KVPT by preparing your
television to recieve a digital signal.
KVPT is partnering with Comcast to answer
your questions regarding the digital transition.
Doh. The second link above should be: http://www.ionmedia.tv/press/press.cfm?id=142
That link lists all markets that ION transmits in. For some reason I can not edit my message above to correct it.
I probably needn't tell you which choice a 70-year-old Missouri man selected on Friday, after he couldn't get his DTV converter box to work. According to reports, after the Joplin resident lost his cable and fussed with the DTV box for a bit, he gave up, and eventually turned to the oldest of analog solutions -- good old-fashioned firepower -- to get the television to start working.
I think you misread that. ION is already digital, it's the HD that's being delayed. In fact, Ann Arbor's (Detroit) station shut off their analog signal on Feb.18/09.
The transition has been painful in large part because the NTIA has had to put millions of consumers on a waiting list for the $40 coupons it is distributing for digital converter boxes, after it spent the $1.3 billion initially provided for the coupon program. The stimulus package President Obama signed into law allocated an additional $650 million for the program.
Thanks to that extra funding, the NTIA should be able to mail out about 2 million coupons per week, McGuire-Rivera said, getting coupons to the millions on its waiting list in less than three weeks. The agency is also expecting to run its coupon program more efficiently now that it has expanded the number of banks issuing the debit card coupons and enhanced its waste, fraud, and abuse checks.
I think the remaining 4 million people on the waiting list should be getting their coupons by the end of March. I see people who were put on the wait list at the beginning of March have an expected mail out date of March 27th.
Since it's a first in/first out deal, that means everybody who has been waiting since January should already have their coupons. The Stimulus deal did approve coupon money. But the coupon money didn't get sent out for about 2 weeks after the Stimulus passed. (procedural issues)
See, thats where goverment accounting is really screwy. No more money was really needed. The money from expired and unused coupons didnt go back into the "pot" for other converter boxes like normal people would expect. Instead it went back into the general fund, where it could be used for other things.
By Steve Smith -- TWICE, 4/23/2009 1:35:00 PM
Washington
The digital TV transition has been successful, with government and industry members trying to ensure the remaining pockets of consumers who rely on over-the-air broadcasting have the information, converter-box coupons and the boxes themselves to keep watching TV when the June 12 deadline arrives.
The transition is showing promise in the Rochester area. Channel 8, the CBS affiliate has recently shown a 20% increase in signal strength. I'm getting from mid 80s to 100% for Rochester stations now. The true test of course will be at the end of the week when the temporary channel locations are switched to their permanent channels. I'm also seeing an increase in Syracuse stations although some are not strong enough for a picture with current setup of small outdoor antenna.
Here, stations will be cutting over at different times. Some stations will switch at 8am during the local morning shows while some others will switch at 9.
There will also be some switching over at noon. I believe at that point, all will have switched off analog channels after 60+ years.
Provided as a service to our Central Cali. readers. This does not include Modesto/Sacramento, as someone else will have to post that info. I live in Visalia.
ETA: 22 minutes ago, KUVI 45 Bakersfield completely cut their analog signal. The digital channels come in perfectly, they didn't yesterday.
Subchannels are 31.1 and 39.1, two Spanish channels.
Well it's a good thing that I am close to the station, because they were on Ch. 58 and moved to Ch. 7. This is my first VHF_Hi DTV station. The 10" closed bow tie still works for me.
As of 15 minutes ago. KSEE 24 Fresno stopped regular broadcasts on the analog signal. It now broadcasts a DTV info program, which I believe is a "nightlight" service. What does everyone else see?
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